OT: Artemis II network TV coverage

They'll clean it up in post -- in preparation for the sequel!

The cameramen are a bit out of practice at doing it.

I agree that one of the high magnification colour cameras appeared to be mounted on a jelly and tracked by hand! The later stages were much better.

The launch pad camera probably didn't survive the engine blast. Shame that they cut away to the crowd view just when it got interesting.

You only get one go in realtime and that much power from the rocket engines can cause things like connectors to work loose from vibration.

We stayed up to watch it broadcast live on the BBC news channel (streaming the NASA TV feed). I bet send their own team next time.

Remember that the early Apollo missions allowed them to practice before the big missions. This was something of a big bang moment the equivalent of going in at Apollo 8 with all the glare of publicity.

I look forward to seeing another Earth rise photo/video although it will never surpass the original Apollo 8 mission image (what an Xmas present!).

Still it *was* a very successful launch and they are on their way. Not sure that going to the moon with a manned mission is really worth it apart from the opportunity to rub the deniers noses in it when they bring back a couple of artefacts from an earlier Apollo mission.

ISTR Hasselblad offered a reward for bring back one of their cameras from the lunar surface back in the day. I wonder what condition they will be in after 50 years of hard UV and micrometeorites?

It looked red rusty to me like it had been part dipped in seawater and left to rust, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I do not know why at some seconds a TV station showed what looked to me like a computer simulation of a green rocket (after showing a red rocket launch!) flying almost horizontally across a TV set. (S.

The mission is absurd. NASA is just a money-burning bureaucracy.

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Just wrote this to alt.politics.trump: Future? President Trump to be first human on Mars After noting he will be killed once he personally enlist to fight Iran, President trump orders NASA to carry his remains on the next Mars rover and then bury it in a small golden coffin so as to be the first Human on Mars

Anyways soon we will see the anti-graffiti drive,.. no more rockets, or maybe nuclear propulsion, long ago NASA did experiments with that. As to cameras, sure, when the moon landings happened I was in the TV head control room here relaying it to the people. Nothing new... Just stay cool and concentrated, no errors allowed.. All BW coming from the moon back then. Indeed disruptions in digital networks can give huge artefacts. OTOH I did see it start now on BBC and it looked impressive, big.

Humans are only at the beginning of space exploration, just a few thousand years from the stone-age.. Things evolve, exponentially in time?

Shouldn't it mostly be pictures/video of the Moon?

NASA has its hand in about 10,000+ (figurative) different applications. They accomplish quite a lot considering their budget and the size of their workforce. The moon launch is a minuscule part of everything they do. Manned missions are a waste of money. There's nothing they do that can't be done robotically. Quantum teleportation has a better chance of facilitating exploration of deep space than anything mankind can do. And that's a zero percent chance of happening any time soon.

Sorry. This mission is not absurd. Survivals which are not on Earth are needed to avoid extinction. (S.

Many of the newsgroups that focus on space have no article dated this month about this mission! Exceptions are alt.culture.outerspace and sci.astro and sci.space.policy (S.

Actually, the usual plan is "Save the Earth".

Take it easy, that's my meal-ticket you're talking about.

NASA should do more aeronautics and more real science.

People are too expensive and too fragile to send to "explore space."

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Save the Earth and live elsewhere too. (S.

Nothing will ever convince the conspiracy-f***ed, fugedaboutit.

I guess the foam is just that color "naturally", they painted the Shuttle external tanks for the first few missions then stopped bothering in favor of saving a bit of weight. I read that the age of the oldest part on Artemis II is circa 1982.

No US sends people into wars every day to steal and rob . to get killed..

Like somebody else already mentioned: We need a place to go when life here becomes impossible, meteorites, climate change, nuclear disasters, wars, viruses, what not.

This one is a bit of a show mission, a white man a black man and a women...

Moon is a good place perhaps for a simple spacecraft to take of from, to go and look for some satellites of planets in our solar system that may be habitable. Or further away! Personally I think: modify a space rock -put some propulsion system on it- and use that as spacecraft, raise families there, grow plants there, trip may take thousands of years...

Alternative is: send DNA and seeds and some supporting stuff so things / life can grow there, maybe before you go.

When looking in the future: 'beam them up', 'replicator' is my favorite tool for pizzas.

In those old moon landing times getting live video (small step for man, big step for mankind) was a very complex thing. Even when the US - that had the NTSC system - could show people, the signal had to be converted to the European PAL system and to the SECAM system for France. TV system conversion was done in the UK, then forwarded to the rest of Europe. Although we later had an (optical IIRC) converter here, had to fix it once... I those day video recorders where big complicated things, as were cameras.

Now every youtube poster has it all..

Time flies, relativity? LOL

It was April 1st! It looked to me like some wag had spliced in a bit of Thunderbirds...

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It did look like "Thunderbirds"! :) However it is certainly not from (original) "Thunderbirds", but maybe there is a new computer "Thunderbirds" (like "Noddy"; "Fireman Sam"; and "Red Dwarf"). (S.

There are a couple of new Thunderbirds. One is the old series with the strings digitally removed by pre AI image processing (it doesn't look right), and the other are computer graphics avatars (50th anniversary edition in 2015). Comparison of features here:

The old ones had distinctive Jetex engines in the rocket drives.

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